Prime Minister Narendra Modi should put an end to his silence on many issues faced by the transgender community as well as the common masses in the country, transgender rights activist Akkai Padmashali has said.
She was delivering the keynote address at the Student Christian Movement’s national conference at the Kerala United Theological Seminary, Kannammoola, on Wednesday.
On the inaction of the Central government towards the welfare of the transgender community, she said that the basis for bringing the community to the social mainstream was not just education and employment, as conceived by the governments, but a widespread culture of inclusion.
The conference was inaugurated by Minister for Water Resources Matthew T. Thomas, who said that the State government was actively striving to ensure that transpersons received the respect they deserved from their families and society.
